A diary is a written or audiovisual memorable record, with discrete entries arranged by date reporting on what has happened over the course of a day or other period. Diaries have traditionally been ha
A facsimile of the original diary of Anne Frank on display in Berlin
Pocket diary 1860 with ruler for scale
Annelies Marie Frank was a German-born Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim. She gained worldwide notability posthumously for keeping a diary documenting her life in hiding during the German occupation
Diary
…politics and the arts. One of the most famous modern diaries, widely read and translated, is the posthumously published The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, who wrote it while in hiding during the German occupation of Amsterdam in the 1940s. Otto Frank edited his daughter's diary and arranged for its…
Frank in May 1942, two months before she and her family went into hiding
Frank at the 6th Montessori School (1940)
1929: Anne's birthplace, the Hospital Maingau of the Red Cross in Frankfurt-Nordend, Germany
1929-1931: Stele in front of Anne's home at Marbachweg 307 in Frankfurt-Dornbusch, Germany